[Info-vax] State of the OpenVMS hobbyist program?

[Hans Bachner]

Simon Clubley schrieb am 19.11.2019 um 14:15:
> On 2019-11-19, Alexander Schreiber <als at usenet.thangorodrim.de> wrote:
>>
>> So, be patient, it might take a few days, but you'll get your
>> hobbyist license, which has a 13 month lifetime. Adding a note
>> to my calender to update the license a year from now ;-)
>>
> 
> Be aware that HPE support for VMS ends at the end of 2020 and
> therefore it is expected that the HPE hobbyist program will end
> at the same time, if not before. This is why finding out about
> VSI's plans for a hobbyist program is becoming more important
> than it was a couple of years ago.

While we all are interested how the VSI hobbyist program will work (and 
when), this is only half the answer. I assume that there are quite a few 
hobbyists around who use VMS on physical and/or emulated VAXen or just 
enjoy running historic equipment with software from the days when this 
equipment was built. And the probability that VSI will (be allowed to) 
issue licenses for DEC/CPQ/HP(E) versions of VMS is rather low imho.

Hans.